Sunday, August 12, 2007

Have you ever noticed how many animals show up on beer labels? We have lions and tigers and bears, plus various birds, reptiles, fish, assorted domesticated and wild animals, plus a few mythical creatures. For whatever reason brewers have a tradition of branding their beers using everything from pets to predators. The Brew Zoo will celebrate these lagers and ales.

Your assignment for The Session #7 is to go on a beer safari and help stock our Brew Zoo with animals large and small. This is one hunt that even PETA should not protest.

This should be a fun one, although I do have two thoughts right off the bat:

1) All of the locally-available beers I can think of with animal names and/or graphics are pretty lousy. I'll have to wrack my brain to come up with something before September 7th.

2) It's funny how the idea of drinking a "zoo brew" is perfectly acceptable to the beer geek contingent, while serious wine drinkers generally look down upon so-called "critter wines" that feature animals on the label.

2 comments:

I recently sampled a couple of beers from the Boréale brewery in Quebec - the Noire (stout) which I wasn't blown away by, and the Rousse, which I quite liked. Anyway, all their beer features a polar bear on the label.

Yeah, I've tried a few Boreale beers. None of them have done a lot for me. If I was going to include them, I'd want to try them again to get a current opinion, but I don't think any of them are available in Ontario.